An Invitation To Our Friends: Help Us Build a Social Site That Won't Fry Your Brain

Hi Everyone. After years of discussion, book writing, creating a blogsite and even a Substack page, all of which we found either lacking, or, ourselves curiously downgraded by the sites and/or the google algorithm, Carl and I decided to throw caution to the wind and just create a better Social Network; a site that won't fry your brain. We've named it Fnora. We have hit the milestone in development where we are comfortable enough to onboard a cohort of alpha users consisting of people we know and trust to help us bring the project to fruition. To this end, I've been instructed to share a message from the man behind the curtain, Carl the Coder. If anyone has questions or needs sign-up guidance, my phone number, email address, and the invitation code are in this page post below.

-----------:) Steve

To New Invited Members

Welcome to Fnora, alpha test edition. Thank you for giving this early version of Fnora a test drive. Please play with the features and provide feedback. Either private message me, or comment in the Bugs and Beefs blog, which you can find by going to the Help page.

To get a general idea of what you can do with Fnora see the Take the Tour link in the main menu. I'll be adding more articles to the Tour over the next week or so.

Find a Use Case

OK, this test platform only has a few people. What's the fun of that? What's the fun of any social network until it has hordes of users? Some possibilities:

1. Use the Fnora test platform as a blog platform which you can point to from Twitter or other terse social networks. Even now, Fnora offers bigger pictures and more formatting options than most platforms. (Yes, there is a bit of overhead learning some QTML, but trust me, it's worth it. I wrote my doctoral dissertation using a similar markup language and miss that language to this day. (And you only need the subset of QTML that you want to use.))
2. Bring in some friends, fans or family and play with Fnora together. You have permission to give out the invitation code to people you trust not to be spammers, griefers, etc. A social network can be useful without huge numbers of people if the membership consists of a few close knit tribes.

In the Future

Once a few tribes have had a chance to work out the bugs of Fnora, I'll focus on the security/moderation needed to bring in true strangers. Then, it's on to migrating to the .com site. The .com site will be a paid site, but initial adopters should be able to easily get that money back plus gas money via the planned affiliate program.

This won't be a full on multi-level marketing scheme. It will be a recognition that a social network isn't worth much until there are enough people in it, so initial adopters will get paid to make Fnora into something worth paying for.

Once Again, Thanks for Joining -- Carl

Steve again, everyone. Please feel free to contact me if you need help or questions answered. If by phone, text first and I'll get right back to you. I look forward to it.